An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volume 2A. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1789 |
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Página 131
... monopoly price . The rent never pays the in- tereft of the purchase - money , and is besides bur- dened with repairs and other occafional charges , to which the intereft of money is not liable . To purchase land is every - where in ...
... monopoly price . The rent never pays the in- tereft of the purchase - money , and is besides bur- dened with repairs and other occafional charges , to which the intereft of money is not liable . To purchase land is every - where in ...
Página 133
... monopoly price . The free rent of the land would go nearer to pay the intereft of the purchase - money , and a small ca- pital might be employed in purchafing land as profitably as in any other way . ENGLAND , on account of the natural ...
... monopoly price . The free rent of the land would go nearer to pay the intereft of the purchase - money , and a small ca- pital might be employed in purchafing land as profitably as in any other way . ENGLAND , on account of the natural ...
Página 134
... monopoly against their countrymen for the two greatest and most important articles of land pro- duce , bread and butcher's meat . These en- couragements , though at bottom , perhaps , as I fhall endeavour to fhow hereafter , altogether ...
... monopoly against their countrymen for the two greatest and most important articles of land pro- duce , bread and butcher's meat . These en- couragements , though at bottom , perhaps , as I fhall endeavour to fhow hereafter , altogether ...
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... monopoly was frequently procured for the goods and merchants of the country which established them . THE two forts of restraints upon importation . above - mentioned , together with thefe four en- couragements to exportation ...
... monopoly was frequently procured for the goods and merchants of the country which established them . THE two forts of restraints upon importation . above - mentioned , together with thefe four en- couragements to exportation ...
Página 176
... monopoly of the home- market is more or lefs fecured to the domestic industry employed in producing them . Thus the prohibition of importing either live cattle or falt provifions from foreign countries fecures to the graziers of Great ...
... monopoly of the home- market is more or lefs fecured to the domestic industry employed in producing them . Thus the prohibition of importing either live cattle or falt provifions from foreign countries fecures to the graziers of Great ...
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Página 175 - ... every individual necessarily labours to render the annual revenue of the society as great as he can. He generally, indeed, neither intends to promote the public interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it.
Página 175 - By preferring the support of domestic to that of foreign industry, he intends only his own security ; and by directing that industry in such a manner as its produce may be of the greatest value, he intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention.
Página 22 - The uniform, constant, and uninterrupted effort of every man to better his condition, the principle from which public and national, as well as private opulence is originally derived, is frequently powerful enough to maintain the natural progress of things toward improvement, in spite both of the extravagance of government, and of the greatest errors of administration.
Página 16 - Every increase or diminution of capital, therefore, naturally tends to increase or diminish the real quantity of industry, the number of productive hands, and consequently the exchangeable value of the annual produce of the land and labour of the country, the real wealth and revenue of all its inhabitants.
Página 19 - ... comes with us from the womb, and never leaves us till we go into the grave.
Página 176 - It is the maxim of every prudent master of a family never to attempt to make at home what it will cost him more to make than to buy.
Página 162 - By opening a more extensive market for whatever part of the produce of their labour may exceed the home consumption, it encourages them to improve its productive powers, and to augment its annual produce to the utmost, and thereby to increase the real revenue and wealth of the society.
Página 438 - If it was adopted, however, Great Britain would not only be immediately freed from the whole annual expense of the peace establishment of the colonies, but might settle with them such a treaty of commerce as would effectually secure to her a free trade, more advantageous to the great body of the people, though less so to the merchants, than the monopoly which she at present enjoys.
Página 177 - What is prudence in the conduct of every private family, can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom. If a foreign country can supply us with a commodity cheaper than we ourselves can make it, better buy it of them with some part of the produce of our own industry, employed in a way in which we have some advantage.
Página 1 - THERE is one sort of labour which adds to the value of the subject upon which it is bestowed: there is another which has no such effect. The former, as it produces a value, may be called productive; the latter, unproductive labour.